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"The car is the best form of personal transport yet devised with 76 per cent of the population having access to one." I wonder what definition of best this is.

It is certainly not the most efficient, as cars are some the least efficient uses of energy to move people around. They take up the most amount of space per person moved too.

Motor vehicles kill millions of people a year, directly, and many more due to the inactive lifestyles.

Oh, that figure of 76 per cent is also slightly wrong. In Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire at the last census, there were 46,714 households, and 31,012 had access to a cars, only 66 per cent of households.

But that ignores that every child under 16 cannot drive a motorised vehicle at all. That's 42,695 children that have been conveniently ignored in the "have access to" statement.

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"Effort should be made to better accommodate the inevitably increasing car use rather than fighting it." This argument would suggest we need to build dual carriageways along every radial into Cambridge and not bus lanes. And complex multi-level junctions towering over the remaining houses.

Perhaps a flyover over the top of King's College Chapel would tell the world that we are a motoring city to be proud of?

Let's pave over all the green space to build the inevitable car parks that would be required. Oh, and close the bus station, close the railway stations, and all the park and ride sites.

Not sure where all the university student car parking would go? In the courts perhaps? That would increase car use. But is that really what we want?

Perhaps we can have a debate about how we allow people to use cars, and cycles, and many other forms of transport, but not to the exclusion of all others.

Arguments made using incorrect data, ignoring large proportions of the population, that would destroy everything that is special about this city, are not good arguments.

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